Winding-machine



N0 MODEL.

G. H. KNAPP.

WINDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 4, 190a.

PATENTED JAN; 5, 1904.

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THE norms Farms 00 mm'uumo" vusumsmm n. c.

INVENTOR,

BY 5 mm ATTORNEYS.

No. 748,750. PATENTED JAN. 5, 1904. C. H. KNAPP'. WINDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAE. 4, 1903 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

' ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES Patented January 5, 1904.

CHARLES H. KNAPP, OE PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

WINDING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 748,750, dated January 5, 1904.

Application filed March 4, 1903 To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. KNAPP, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Winding-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This inventionrelates to winding-machines; and it has reference particularly to that class of windingmachines wherein provision is made for compensating for the tendency of the beam or spools, as the case may be, to draw on the threads with gradually-increasing tension owing to the increase in the thickness of the goods wound.

My invention, which has in view as its principal object improving the rotating means for the beam or spools and also the traverse mechanism, will be found fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a side view of enough of the machine constituting my invention to illustrate the improvements thereon. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of what is shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a slightly-enlarged front view of a portion of the machine, and Fig. i 1 illustrates a detail.

In a frame a, which is braced in part by plates 5 and c and by the usual pair of guiderods d, is journaled the drive-shaft e, which carries a face-plate f at one end and receives the power through a pulley g or the like at the other end. Above this shaft is journaled a counter-shaft h, which is connected by gearing 2', inolosed in a casing j with a traversing mandrel In, which is splined with the gear Z, forming one of the members of gearing i. The power is transmitted from faceplate f to shaft 72. through a vertical shaft on, which is journaled in the bearings n, carried by a stand 0, which projects from the side of the frame, said shaft having splined onto it a friction-disk and being connected with shaft h by bevel gearing q. The action of faceplate is initially imparted to the frictiondisk from a controlling-lever r,

which is con- Serial No. 1%,054. (No model.)

nected with shaft c by any suitable mechan- "ism (not shown)for instance, such as that illustrated in my United States Letters Patent No. 661,268, which operates to shift the shaft 2, and consequently the face-plate, toward the friction-disk. Friction-disk 1) may be adjusted so as to take various speeds of rotation from the face-plate from a handwheel 8, which is journaled in the frame and is connected with the friction-disk by a pinion t, rotatiugwith the hand-wheel, a lover a, fulcrumed in the frame and having a segmental rack o, meshing with the pinion, and a fork w, which engages a grooved collar x on the friction disk and which has a sleeve y, which is guided on an upright z of stand o and is connected with the free end of lever u by a link 1.

In the frame a and a bracket 2, which is adj ustably secured on the rear guide-rod d, is arranged for longitudinal movementa shaft 8,which carries fork 4:,adj ustably secured on the shaft by set-screws 5 and receiving the mandrel it against the outside of collars 6, on which said forks take. On the free end of shaft 3 is arranged between collars 7 on the shaft an arm 8, said arm being pressed toward one of the collars by a spiral spring 9, interposed between the arm and the other collar. The arm may be kept in the approximately vertical position shown by a key 10 on the collar 7, with which said arm engages, said key engaging a groove 11 in the adjoining face of the arm. This arm forms the bearing for one end of the spindle or other axial support 12, on which the spools 13 are directly mounted, the other end of the spindle being secured in the mandrel in such manner as to have imparted to it the rotary action of the mandrel.

1 t rep resents the thread-guides, carried by a suitablesupport 15 in parallel disposition to the spools.

In view of the foregoing it will be manifest that any longitudinal reciprocation of the supporting means (com-prising mandrel 70, forks 4:, shaft 3, arm 8, and spindle 12) for the spools will be imparted to the spools simultaneously with their being rotated from mandrel it, the threadguides acting to lay the goods evenly on the spools as the latter are caused to rotate and traverse.

Shaft 3 carries a bracket 16, secured adj 11stably thereon by means of a set-screw 17 and through which the shaft is normally pulled in one direction by means of a weight 18, which is connected with the bracket by means of a flexible connection 19,passing over a pulley 20, journaled in the frame.

21 is a stand secured to plate I) and having a vertical slot 22. In this slot is guided a block 23, having a flange 24, which takes against the rear face of the stand and is formed with a stud 25, onto which is screwed a nut 26, which holds in place a plate 27, which takes against the front face of the stand. The block is penetrated and engaged by a screw 28, having bearings in the stand and capable of being rotated from a handwheel 29 on a shaft 30, journaled in the upper end of the stand through bevel-gearing 31. A stud 32 on block 23 forms a fulcrum for a lever 33, which is formed with a longitudinal slot 32, receiving the stud, and whose upper end is forked and receives an antifrictionroller 34 on the bracket 16,itslower end having another antifriction-roller or other projection 35, moving in guides 35 in the stand and engaging a cam 36 on a shaft 37, which is journaled in a stand 38, carried by the plate 0. By altering the position of stud 32 by vertically adjusting block 23 from hand-wheel 29 the fulcrum for the lever 33, which is formed by said stud, is altered, and so the throw of the upper end of the lever is varied, thus varying the length of the traverse of the spools.

The cam 36, which actuates lever 33, 'is driven through shaft 37 from a worm-wheel 39 on said shaft, which meshes with a worm 40, carried by a shaft 41, having bearings in an oil-cup 42, carried by plate 0, said shaft 41 and another shaft 43 carrying cone-pulleys 44, around which extendsabelt 45. Shaft 43, which is journaled in the frame a, is driven from shaft h through a sprocket-and-chain arrangement 46. In order to vary the speed of shaft 37, and consequently the rapidity of the traverse, I provide a belt-shifter 47, which is penetrated by and has a threaded engagement with a shaft 48, journaled in frame a and rotated from a hand-wheel 49 on ashaft 50 through the medium of bevel-gearing 51. The belt-shifter carries at one end a fork 52, which receives the under stretch of the belt, and at the other end a roller 53, which takes against the upper stretch of the belt. Shaft 50 is journaled in brackets 54 and 55, respectively, carried by frame a and plate 0. It will be manifest that by manipulating the handwheel the belt may be shifted so as to vary the relative speeds of shafts 43 and 37, and consequently the rapidity of the traverse, as above stated.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a frame, the device or devices on which the material is wound, a face-plate, a rotary shaft, power-transmitting mechanism operatively connecting the shaft and said device or devices, a friction-disk splined on the shaft and adapted to be enga ged by the face-plate, a rotary toothed part, a lever having a segmental toothed portion engaging said toothed part, and operative connecting mechanism between the lever and thefriction-disk, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a frame, the device or devices on which the material is wound, a face-plate, a rotary shaft, power-transmitting mechanism operatively connecting the shaft and said device or devices, a friction-disk splined on the shaft and adapted to be engaged by the face-plate, a rotary toothed part, a lever having a segmental toothed portion engaging said toothed part, a fork engaging the friction-disk, a guiding part penetrating a portion of the fork, and operative connecting means between said lever and the fork, substantially as described.

3. The combination ofa frame,for thedevice or devices on which the material is wound, an axial support therefor, alongitudinally-movable shaft guided in said frame, a longitudinally-movable mandrel also guided in the frame, means connecting the shaft and the mandrel for transmitting from the one to the other longitudinal movement, and a springactuated arm arranged on said shaft and coactive with said mandrel for sustaining the axial support of said device or devices, substantially as described.

4. The combination ofaframe,for the device or devices on which the material is wound, an axial support therefor, a longitudinally-movable shaft guided in said frame, a longitudinally-movable mandrel also guided in the frame, means connecting the shaft and the mandrel for transmitting from the one to the other longitudinal movement, and means, carried by said shaft and coacting with the mandrel, for sustaining the axial support of said device or devices, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a frame, the device or devices on which the material is wound, a traversable support for said device or devices guided in the frame, a lever engaging said support, means for actuating the lever, a slotted stand carried by the frame, a block arranged to move in the slot, said lever having a fulcrum in the block, and a rotary threaded shaft engaging the block, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 2d day of March, 1903.

CHARLES H. KNAPP.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. STEWARD, ROBERT J. POLLITT. 

